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Meanings of svelte in English
Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience.
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Examples for "polished"
Examples for "polished"
1
The end result is a polished product, though not without its shortcomings.
2
Tinaja similar in form and size to the preceding; black polished ware.
3
But Tamim and Mushfiqur restored the situation with a polished century partnership.
4
His enormous sea shells, cast in polished bronze, are cumbersome and costly.
5
Points of light twinkled in the polished balls of the brass andirons.
1
Sugar: Yes, excessive sugar, refined sugars and even excessive healthy natural sugars.
2
Rosneft has rapidly expanded its trade in refined products in recent year.
3
This growing supply surge has not yet affected the refined copper market.
4
So in January this year, the MP Harry Cohen refined Mahon's question.
5
Yet there is no obvious corresponding build of refined lead in China.
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In reality the cloak of secrecy is best achieved through urbane banality.
2
Spare a thought for Garry Richardson, the Today programme's urbane sports correspondent.
3
Labor, it is clear, can be every bit as urbane as capital.
4
He was supremely confident, and the best sense of the word urbane.
5
The answering machine clicked and my wonderfully urbane message began to play.
Usage of svelte in English
1
In cold weather his preferences go toward the buxom, in summer, svelte.
2
Speck's SeeThru is about as svelte as a protective case can get.
3
More powerful speakers than the previous Pro make it a svelte boombox.
4
This suede low-top which delivers big-boot stability in a svelte alpine-centric package.
5
The Ultrabooks will be svelte and lightweight but still pack high-performace processors.
6
Assistant Director Sandra Cummings, analyst-synthesist and semantician, was tall, blonde and svelte.
7
She was a blonde, a brunette, tall, petite, svelte, straight-featured, full, curvilinear.
8
That's hardly svelte, but less weight is always a good thing.
9
Always carry a headlamp on long routes, but make it a svelte one.
10
Long approaches and multi-day loads may overwhelm the shoe's svelte undercarriage.
11
I was present in court, and I must admit she was svelte-decidedlysvelte.
12
Sony PSP: Gorgeous and svelte, with lots of promising games in the pipeline.
13
Worse, I was seeing the svelte new carcass alongside my old-model MacBook Pro.
14
There is neither svelte luxury nor tiki-taka romance at this ground.
15
The CDP-101 did not come cheap nor did it come svelte.
16
She looked very unmagical, with her sleek short hair and svelte besuited figure.
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